Gus Grissom Autographs
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American astronaut and United States Air Force pilot. He was born on April 3, 1926, in Mitchell, Indiana. Grissom loved flying from a young age and was fascinated by space travel ever since he heard about it. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1944 and worked as a flight instructor during World War II. He then became a fighter pilot and served during the Korean War.
In 1959, Grissom was selected as one of the Mercury Seven astronauts who would be the first Americans to go into space. He piloted the second manned mission, Mercury-Redstone 4, on July 21, 1961, which made him the second American in space, after Alan Shepard. The mission lasted about 15 minutes, and Grissom became the first person to experience weightlessness twice. He was also the first astronaut to manually control his spacecraft in space. Later, Grissom also flew in the Gemini 3 mission with John Young on March 23, 1965, which was the first manned Gemini mission.
On January 27, 1967, during a preflight test for the Apollo 1 mission, a fire broke out in the spacecraft that killed Grissom and his fellow crew members Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Grissom had been selected to be the commander of Apollo 1 and was known for his meticulousness and attention to detail. After his death, Grissom was honored by NASA, and awards such as the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and the Grissom Air Force Base were named in his memory.
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Traded items with a signature of Gus Grissom
The most expensive item with a signature of Gus Grissom (SIGNED APOLLO 1 AUTOGRAPHED PHOTO GUS GRISSOM ROGER CHAFFEE EDWARD WHITE RARE >>) was sold in March 2021 for $6,999.99 while the cheapest item (Roy D. Bridge Jr. Autographed Virgil Gus Grissom FDC) found a new owner for $7.52 in June 2009. The month with the most items sold (7) was August 2025 with an average selling price of $1,161.90 for an autographed item of Gus Grissom. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2021 with $4,500.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $7.52 was June 2009. In average, an autographed item from Gus Grissom is worth $518.02.
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